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LaineyGossip.com is an entertainment news and gossip blog co-founded by Elaine "Lainey" Lui. The primary voice of LaineyGossip.com, she is also co-host
of CTV's daytime talk show "The Social", and a reporter on CTV's "etalk", Canada's number one rated entertainment news show.

The site started as an email to small group of friends and colleagues in 2003 and spread by word of mouth to thousands of now
loyal readers. It launched as a website in December 2004 and has since grown into an immensely popular entertainment destination
visited by over 1.5 million monthly unique readers. Generating over 18 million monthly page views, it is now a leading
international celebrity gossip source and a must read for well-read, educated females across North America.

Aside from securing hot tips and exclusive party access on its own, the site has benefited from the access associated with Lainey's role
on CTV's etalk, which she joined in 2006 as a special correspondent. With etalk Lainey has covered the Red Carpet at the Oscars,
SuperBowl XLII, Cannes and Toronto International Film Festivals, and other top tier events worldwide.

In April of 2014 Lainey fulfilled a lifelong dream when her first book Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When a Mother Knows Best, What's a
Daughter to Do? A Memoir (Sort Of) was published (by Random House in Canada and Penguin in the USA).

Bored yet? If not, below is a selection of clippings from a handful of magazines and newspapers over the past few years.

The Walrus, March 2015IN DEFENCE OF LOW CULTURE: And praise of love, hate, discovery, jealousy, obsession, betrayal, and mean-girlingBy Elaine Lui for The Walrus Talks Creativity

Elaine Lui is a Canadian television personality, reporter, blogger, and author. She runs the celebrity-gossip website laineygossip.com,
reports for CTV's etalk, co-hosts CTV's daily talk series The Social, and wrote the mother-daughter memoir Listen to the Squawking Chicken...
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Toronto Life, November 2014Toronto's 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014By Toronto Life

She's the quirkiest, funniest and most watchable member of The Social, CTV's answer to The View, and the active ingredient in its
success. The show, now in its second season, reaches 2.4 million viewers weekly (up 300,000 from Season One) and has reeled in such high-watt
guests as Katy Perry, Jessica Alba, Jane Lynch and Daniel Radcliffe. Her website, LaineyGossip, attracts...
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FLARE May, 2014Mother CluckerBy Maureen Halushak

In her new "sort of" memoir, Lainey Gossip's ELAINE LUI divulges her most personal scoop yet: the inner workings of her insanely close relationship with her mom, semi-affectionately known as the Squawking Chicken. Over dim sum,
MAUREEN HALUSHAK observes the dynamic. Read on for the full experience, plus an exclusive excerpt...
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Two weeks ago when Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin announced they were divorcing, many focused on the labored "conscious uncoupling"
argot used in their announcement, which was posted on Paltrow's lifestyle website goop.com. Elaine Lui, the entertainment reporter and force
behind Lainey Gossip took a different tack and analyzed the ever-shifting boundary...
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Huffington Post April 11, 2014Elaine Lui Opens Up About Her Chinese Squawking Chicken in Her Debut BookBy Kelli Catana

Elaine Lui is the genius behind the ridiculously successful celebrity gossip blog Lainey Gossip, a correspondent on ETalk and most
recently one of the hosts of the very successful CTV daytime talk show The Social. Lui now gets to add "author" to that list of
accomplishments with the release of her first book titled Listen To The Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best...Link to full article

Toronto Life April 2014In Lurv With Lainey: Elaine Lui's rise to the top of the gossip pantheonBy Emily Landau

Elaine Lui is 40 but has the bearing of a 16-year-old, boundless and brash, her body language filled with aggressive eye rolls, giggles
and wild gesticulation. Sitting in a green room at the CTV studios on Queen West, writing a post for her blog,- LaineyGossip, she takes a
long drag from her e-cigarette, a bejewelled bauble that looks like a tube of lip gloss and emits a trail of vanilla-scented vapour...Link to full article

Toronto Star, April 10, 2014LaineyGossip blogger Elaine Lui reveals all in her new bookBy Dianne Rinehart

No one will ever have to "out" celebrity gossip blogger Elaine Lui of LaineyGossip on her own life. The contributor to etalk and co-host
of The Social has already dished it up - raw, spicy, unvarnished and uncensored - on a silver platter for everyone to digest and pick over
in her new memoir, Listen to the Squawking Chicken...Link to full article

Elaine Lui is best known for her website: LaineyGossip, where she spills all about movie stars, royalty and other celebrities. She gave
a TED (Technology, Education and Design) talk in which she said: "My name is Lainey and I talk sh-t for a living," and then proceeded to
explain how gossip is really a more profound discussion about societal values....Link to full article

Is there such thing as Celebrity Studies? Celebrity reporter for CTV's eTalk and co-host of the talk show The Social, Elaine Lui offered
a convincing lecture at an intimate event in Ottawa bringing together media, bloggers and entertainment aficionados. Better known as
Lainey Gossip, she certainly thinks the culture of gossip says a lot about who we are as a society...Link to full article

A WEEK BEFORE the release of her debut memoir, Elaine Lui is understandably nervous. While she has gabbed about dozens of celebrities
on her blog LaineyGossip.com for nearly a decade, Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When a Mother Knows Best, What's a Daughter to Do?
A Memoir (Sort Of) (Random House Canada) marks the first time Lui has written in detail about herself and her family...Link to full article

The Grid, June 2013Elaine Lui: Gossip GuruBy COURTNEY SHEA

A decade ago, Elaine Lui started LaineyGossip as an email blast among friends. Today, her blog is one of the most
successful gossip sites in the world. Next week, she'll appear at the eighth annual SMUT Soiree (a one-night-only
celebrity gab-fest), and this fall she'll be back in Toronto to co-host a daily talk show called
The Social... Link to full article

MacLeans, March 4, 2013Canada's gossip magnateBy ANNE KINGSTON

A vital player in the new Hollywood hype machine, Lainey Lui is building an empire out of 'smut'. On Feb. 24, the day the entertainment
complex gathers for the lucrative popularity contest known as the Academy Awards, Elaine Lui will wake in her Los Angeles hotel room
before 6 a.m. For Lui, who produces Canada's pre-eminent celebrity gossip website, laineygossip.com, this is a big game day ... Link to full article

Globe and Mail - Sunday, February 17, 2013Lainey's secret to success? Hard work and a mom who didn't varnish the truthBy COURTNEY SHEA

A decade ago, Vancouver's Elaine Lui was fundraising by day and honing her gossip chops by night, writing e-blasts on topics like
Britney or Jennifer Aniston's marriage prospects. Her cheeky take was so popular she launched LaineyGossip, which she's built into one
the world's top celebrity gossip blogs. The Globe and Mail asked her what principles have helped her succeed... Link to full article

The WalrusGossip GirlBy Sarah Selecky

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, CTV flew me from Victoria to Vancouver to shoot an interview for an eTalk special on the Scotiabank Giller
Prize. A producer emailed me a week before the taping: Lainey (laineygossip.com/an eTalk reporter) will be hosting the special. Curious, I followed the link...
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With more than one million readers and Twitter followers visiting LaineyGossip.com every month, it's fair to say that Lainey Lui is the voice of reason when it comes to celebrity (mis)conduct.
We caught up with the ETALK reporter and self-professed gossip maven to talk some smut. ...
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When it comes to celebrity gossip, bigger isn't always better.Some of the biggest news about the Biggest Celebrity Divorce Ever hasn't
come from the weathered hordes of American celebrity bloggers and megasites such as TMZ.com, but from the Vancouver
home of Lainey Lui, a Canadian blogger who has run her own site at laineygossip.com since 2005. Since her first big scoop ...
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NATIONAL POST, Saturday, August 6, 2011GOSSIP GIRLSBy Amoryn Engel

"Girls just want to have fun!" was the collective battle-cry heard from the Evergreen Brickworks as more than 600 ladies gathered for
the sixth annual Smut Soiree presented by The Society and Lainey Gossip. The beautifully appointed, openair venue surrounded by a lush ravine
provided the perfect backdrop for the colourful crowd, who were coiffed, super-styled and ready to gossip ... Link to full article

Which Vancouver-based blogger and self-proclaimed "opinionated bitch" has become a big-name in the world of celebrity gossip? To smuthounds around the city, the answer
should be obvious. Elaine 'Lainey' Lui, is the writer and creator of LaineyGossip, a site that bills itself as the source for "advanced celebrity gossip". "Lovers, Cheaters,
Homewreckers, Superstars, Famewhores ... Link to full article

LifeStyle Magazine, December, 2009 Q&A with LaineyBy Julia LeConte

Lifestyle Magazine: Is TIFF the best or the worst time of your for you? Lainey: The best moments happen at TIFF, how about that? etalk has the most complete coverage,
and it means that we basically handle everything and we're everywhere. So I can't say to you that the best time of my life is when I'm run down, but I can tell you that
the best moments I have working as a blogger ... Link to full article

Globe and Mail, November 20, 2009 Hunted and haunted by the Twi-Hard hordesBy Elaine Lui

Vancouver gossip blogger Lainey recalls the hormonal hurricane surrounding the making of The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
Instead of spending quality time with my husband at a Vegas blackjack table, there I was in a bathroom at Caesars Palace,
whispering with another manover the phone. There was a Twilight cast party going on back in Vancouver, and the man - an
on-set source of mine ... Link to full article

National Post, September 18, 2009On the Town: Lainey: Once a gossip, always a gossipBy Lia Grainger

Lounging on the patio of the Park Hyatt hotel's rooftop lounge, sipping a $10 vodka soda, Lainey looks at home. The 35-year-old author of her own celebrity blog,
Laineygossip.com, seems unruffled by the gown-clad crowd that murmurs about the candlelit party, and she's equally unfazed by the fact that in less than an hour she'll
be on the TIFF red carpet with a mic in her hand ...Link to full article

MacLeans, July 24, 2009The case against having kidsBy Anne Kingston

Elaine Lui was 29 years old and had been married for a year when she and her husband, Jacek Szenowicz, decided that they didn't want children. "Before that, we
didn't give it a lot of thought," says the Vancouver-based eTalk reporter who writes the popular celebrity gossip blog LaineyGossip.com. "It was just an assumption,
'You get married, you have kids.'...Link to full article

Metro, April 2, 2008Gossip going to blogs?The Canadian Press

Readers turning to websites for celebrity dirt: Is our appetite for celebrity gossip waning, spurred on by the mystifying fame of cookie-cutter reality stars and a
preponderance of speculative stories that rarely come to pass? Some are suggesting that a 10-year tidal wave of Hollywood celebrity news has crested and is beginning
to recede - though others counter...Link to full article

While Hollywood wrings its expensively moisturized hands in frustration with the continuing writers strike, one group of tinsel- dependent workers are gleefully
clapping their paws to red, raw stumps: gossip columnists. Stars with loads of money and access to the best vices are the bread and butter of scandal- mongers, but
stars with all the above plus months of time off to misbehave?...Link to full article

InStyle UK, January 2008What's HOT 2008By InStyle

Celeb Blog: The new Perez. Forget Perez Hilton - here comes Lainey, right. Full name Elaine Lui, the Canadian TV reporter's daily, spiky musings on celebrity new
are devoured by millions of fans worldwide. For every star she loves (Gwyneth Paltrow), there's another she just can't help poking fun at (like Posh).
Sign up at Laineygossip.com...Link to full article

Chatelaine, March 2007The Gossip HoundBy Denise Balkisoon

Hungry for the latest Brangelina and Britney-Federline news, 150,000 readers a day flock to the Vancouver-based site www.laineygossip.com.Unabashedly catty, the
gossip hub was founded in 2005 by webmaster Elaine Lui, 33, then a development officer at the child-welfare agency Covenant House. She's since quit her job to devote
her days - and nights - to the project...Link to article

BC Business, December 2006Celebrity Pay DirtBy Jessica Werb

Video killed the radio star, so the song by one-hit-wonder The Buggles goes. And bloggers, it seems, may just kill the entertainment magazine. Take Elaine Lui,
a Vancouver-based celebrity gossip whose decidedly irreverent blog, Laineygossip.com, has garnered her thousands of fans across North America and landed her a regular TV spot
on CIV's eTalk. It's not just Lui's unique brand...Link to full article